~ODONTOGLOSSUM BREVIFOLIUM. 
[Puate 27. | 
Natwe of the Cordillera of Peru. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, monophyllous. Leaves short, 
oblong, two inches broad, and sometimes not much exceeding that in length, spreading. 
pe simple, radical, bearing at the apex a many-flowered erect raceme, the 
membranaceous bracts of which are oblong acute, and as long as the pedicels. Flowers 
nearly or quite two inches in diameter, of a rich chestnut brown on. the inner, and 
olive-green on the outer surface; sepals roundish-ovate, somewhat undulated, narrowed 
aut the base,-of a bright chestnut-brown, narrowly bordered with yellow; petals 
similar in size and _ colour, oblong-ovate; lip clawed, auriculate, wedge-shaped, 
emarginate, shorter than the sepals, bright yellow, bearing at the base five warty 
tubercles, with a three-toothed appendage in front of them. Column small, the 
edges of the anther-bed serrated, and decurrent in the form of membranous wings. 
OvonTocLossuM BREvIFoLIUM, Lindley in Bentham’s Plante Hartwegiane, 152; 
Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Odontoglossum no. 61; André in Illustration Horticole, 
3 ser. t. 170; Reichenbach, fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, vi. 846. 
This very distinct species was first found by Hartweg, on the Peruvian Andes, 
near Loxa, and was described by Lindley, in Mr. Bentham’s account of the plants 
collected by that traveller, It appears to have been introduced by M. Linden, and 
to have been first flowered in his establishment, the figure published in L’Jilus- 
tration Horticole having been derived from this source. ‘The small compressed 
pseudobulbs are formed at the end of a sucker or offshoot, which is invested by 
large membranous bracts or scales, the upper of which covering the base of the 
flower-scape is somewhat broader and _leaf-like. 
This Odontoglot ranks among the most distinct species of its gents, as 
may indeed be seen by a glance at our illustration. It produces dense spikes of 
its beautiful flowers, which are more in the way of those of Odontoglossum 
coronarium than of any other cultivated species; it, however, blooms more freely. 
ap spike of flowers we have here represented was sent to us by Mons. F. Massange, 
of Liége, in Whose collection the gardener—Mr. Kramer—induces it to flower freely 
“very year. M., Massange is a great connoisseur of Orchids, and in his collection 
ae vi be found many rare and valuable specimens, which have been frequently 
ated during the past few years, including the Liége Exhibition of 1881. 
